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Literature is nothing but carpentry.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The forms of things unknown and the the poet’s pen

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a nam
William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
The difference between the right word and the almost right word

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
One word

“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”
Patricia Marx

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